Astrobiology

NASA Astrobiology Early Career Collaboration Award — Grok via Astrobiology.com The Astrobiology Early Career Collaboration Awards offer research-related travel support for undergraduate, graduate students, postdocs, and early career scientists. Applicants

Mars InSIght SEIS (Seismic Experiment for the Interior Structure) — NASA (From September 2024) Are subterranean lifeforms viable on Mars? A new interpretation of Martian seismic data by scientists Ikuo

Structure and electrical connectivity in the Rnf complex of Acetobacterium woodii. Credit Kumar et al., 2025 Animals, plants and many other living organisms inhale oxygen to “burn” (technically: oxidize) compounds

Log2 fold change heatmap of the “spaceflight signatures in mice” in 27 datasets with 10 different mouse tissues. Age (Day). Duration (Day). 1,288 up-regulated and 896 down-regulated genes. — Nature

The abstract in PubMed or at the publisher’s site is linked when available and will open in a new window. Richards JT, Mortenson TE, Spern CJ, Mousseau TA, Gooden JL,

How Titan Maintains Its Atmosphere — SWRI Southwest Research Institute partnered with the Carnegie Institution for Science to perform laboratory experiments to better understand how Saturn’s moon Titan can maintain

This illustration depicts a lake of water partially filling Mars’ Gale Crater, receiving runoff from snow melting on the crater’s northern rim. Evidence of ancient streams, deltas and lakes that

In black: enzymes and metabolic pathways inferred to be present in LUCA with at least PP = 0.75, with sampling in both prokaryotic domains. In grey: those inferred in our least-stringent threshold